Why GPs and specialists choose to undertake a practice management benchmarking exercise

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What it is all about

While business comparisons usually serve to assess the economic situation of medical practices, a practice management business comparison offers general practitioners and specialists the opportunity to compare the type, intensity and effects of their practice management with the representative conditions of their specialist group and the best practice standard. This concept opens up a multitude of possible applications.

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Managing the medical mindshift: Laying the foundations with ratios

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What it’s all about

In order to be able to deal adequately with the changes taking place in their working environment, general practitioners and specialists primarily need a solid practice management foundation. A simple system of ratios ensures solidity.

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Practice management: Avoiding stress, demotivation and burn-out through best practice alignment

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What it’s all about

Practice comparisons show that in the personal cause analysis for permanent stress for general practitioners and specialists, external influences in the form of bureaucratisation, health policy regulations or increased patient demands are primarily responsible. However, a precise analysis of the management of the practice shows that this is where the real cause lies.

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Laboratory values of practice management: what the Teamwork Quality Score (TQS) informs GPs and specialists about

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What it’s all about

Laboratory values are an essential basis for medical patient care. But professional practice management is also inconceivable without their business counterpart, the key performance indicators.

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General practitioners and specialists: The best practice score shows when and what to change in practice management

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What it’s all about

With the help of the benchmarking technique, it is possible to determine how urgent improvements are for practice management in GP practices and where the starting points for this are.

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Shortage of medical assistants: Family doctors and specialists in particular must become active

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What is at stake

In view of the shortage of medical assistants, the demand is growing louder to explore and quickly implement all possibilities to increase the attractiveness and appreciation of the profession of medical assistants in the public, since this group of people is one of the supporting pillars of the health system. However, one essential aspect is left out of this justified demand: appreciation by employers.

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Practice strategy: The master plan for GPs and specialists to address the practice management insufficiency of their businesses

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What it’s all about

In the search for development opportunities and future chances of outpatient health care, one central starting point and design parameter is usually not taken into account: practice management. But its quality is currently in a bad way. This white paper describes why practice management is so important and what GPs and specialists can do against its insufficiency.

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Bad KPI for teamwork? Meeting quality is also causal!

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What it’s all about

The Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for the management area show that hardly any real teams work in medical practices, only groups. Their collaboration, however, lacks essential aspects that ensure the efficiency and productivity of the work. One reason for this is the lack of practice meetings or their poor implementation.

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